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Workshop


Create a Workshop

  1. On the MOLE course home page, click Turn editing on at the upper right of the page.

  2. In the relevant page section, click Add an activity and in the resulting pop-up, under activities, select Workshop. Click Add.

  3. On the Adding a new Workshop page, in the General section, enter a Name for the Workshop and a Description.

  4. Under Grading settings, select:

      • the Grading strategy. For example, use Comments for a non-assessable, process-oriented item (click Help icon for further information)

      • the Grade for submission—the maximum grade a student can earn for submitting the assessment, if applicable (and a grading category, if applicable)

      • the Submission grade to pass—the minimum grade a student needs to pass.

      • the Grade for assessment—a maximum grade for assessment of the submission, if applicable (and a grading category, if applicable)

      • the Assessment grade to pass—the minimum grade a student needs to pass.

      • the number of Decimal places to which you want the grades to display.

5. Under Assessment settings:

      • Enter Instructions for assessment. This is a useful place to provide information about the peer review process and give students some general guidelines and tips for providing constructive feedback. For help in wording these guidelines, this page on student peer assessment may be useful.

      • Select Use self-assessment if you want to allow students to self-assess,

6. Under Feedback:

      • Select your preferred form of Overall feedback mode—or disable this mode if you wish.

      • If you are allowing reviewers to attach feedback files, set a Maximum number of overall feedback attachments, and a maximum size for them.

      • Restrict the feedback to specific file types by entering the Feedback attachment allowed file types.

      • Select the maximum overall feedback attachment size.

      • Provide Conclusion text—this displays to participants at the end of the Workshop activity.

7. Select a Mode of examples assessment. If you are using self-assessment, you have a choice whether to have students assess their own submission before or after the examples. It's useful to specify that Examples must be assessed before own submission to get students thinking about what constitutes a good submission before they consider their own work.

8. Select the Number of examples you want your students to be presented with. Set this if you want to provide a greater number of examples than each student will see. Moodle will present to each student a roughly even spread of poor to good submissions. This is useful to prevent cheating when using the calibrated evaluation method. We advise you to select at least 3 into this field if you are using calibration. If you leave this set to All, all the example submissions you provide will be shown to your students.

9. Select whether you wish to allow Example comparison and/or Example reassessment as desired.

10. Under Availability:

      • Select dates and times to open and close the submission period.

      • We advise you not to select to automatically Switch to the next phase after the submissions deadline, as the scheduled allocation function is currently disabled.

      • Set the assessment period dates and times. This determines when the assessment phase will automatically close off—however, you must still manually move on to the next phase.

11. Complete the remainder of the page as relevant and click Save and display.